NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In last week’s confirmation hearings for the proposed new attorney general of the U.S., Loretta Lynch, esteemed Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah gave the nominee an urgent request:

“I recently read a powerful book… I read it in one day.”

“It’s titled, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.”

“The author writes about many things, including the debacle that occurred in the misguided prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens, which I thought was out of this world bad. I was one of the people who testified as to his character, and he was one a person of great character. As you know, he lost the Senate race because of this type of prosecution. I know that case. Ted Stevens was a dear friend of mine, and I testified on his behalf. Only after he was convicted did we learn that the Justice Department prosecutors intentionally hid exculpatory evidence that could have helped his case.”

“Now, these were not mistakes. They were corrupt acts that violated every prosecutor’s duty under the Brady v. Maryland decision to turn over exculpatory evidence so that the trial will be fair.”

“Now I recommend that you read this book, because if even half of it is true, and I believe it is true, you have a lot of work to do to clean up that department. Will you consider doing that for me?”

Widely respected former federal prosecutor and appellate attorney, Sidney Powell, author of Licensed to Lie, applauds the Senator’s dedication to the rule of law and his appreciation of her work.

“Senator Hatch is a beacon of integrity in the Senate, and a leader in protecting justice for all Americans. I am not surprised that he is appalled by the callous disregard for truth, justice and fundamental fairness exposed in my book. It is my great honor to add my research to this important discussion on reform led by Senators Hatch, Murkowski, Grassley, and others. I also implore Ms. Lynch to champion this cause for reform, and I will welcome any opportunity to meet with her to discuss these crucial issues.

“To restore confidence in the Department, Ms. Lynch should terminate the services of the attorneys in the Department who have been found to have committed intentional or reckless violations of their duties. She should end the Department’s stonewalling of its own Inspector General and provide the documents Congress has long requested in the IRS scandal, Benghazi tragedy, and Fast and Furious disaster. Like every citizen, prosecutors need to be subject to the law, and to be held accountable when they flout it. Indeed, as officers of the court entrusted with the power of the Sovereign, they should be held to an even higher standard. Instead, abusive prosecutors have been promoted, gaining even more power that will make them even more corrupt. What happened to the citizens in Licensed to Lie can happen to anyone. Just ask the teams of the Innocence Project who work tirelessly to free people who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. More than half of those wrongful convictions were the result of prosecutorial misconduct.”

In addition to Senator Hatch, there has been much critical acclaim for Sidney Powell and Licensed to Lie from many respected minds including Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., of Williams & Connolly. Mr. Sullivan said that this book is “more instructive than any criminal law course offered today in our best law schools,” and, “It’s malpractice to litigate against the Department of Justice without reading this book.”

Respected FederalJudge Alex Kozinskiof the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has urged judges to “put a stop” to these abuses. In his private capacity, he wrote the Foreword to Licensed to Lie, which he urges friends of justice to read. In the oral argument of a recent case involving a California prosecutor, Judge Kozinski suggested consideration of perjury charges for prosecutors who lie.

ABOUT LICENSED TO LIE: EXPOSING CORRUPTION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

In Licensed to Lie, Powell leads readers through the disturbing events, missteps, cover-ups, malfeasance, and corruption of justice that have caused her to question the system to which she has been committed for over thirty years. With the narrative style of a legal thriller, this true story captures the drama of the law, the real human costs and consequences of the corruption of justice, and cautions for anyone facing the Department of Injustice.

ABOUT SIDNEY POWELL

Sidney Powell served in the Department of Justice for ten years in Texas and Virginia and has devoted her private practice to federal appeals for the past twenty years. She was the youngest Assistant United States Attorney in the country when she was appointed. Later, she became Chief of the Appellate Sections for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and served as its President. Recognized by her peers as a “Super Lawyer” and named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for years, she has been lead counsel in more than 500 appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, resulting in more than 180 published opinions, and was President of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. Powell’s briefs have long been featured as samples for practitioners.

3 responses to “Senator Orrin Hatch to Loretta Lynch: “Clean Up DOJ” and Read Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell”

Excellent article. The same should apply to state prosecutors (politicians), as well. They are the ones with the power over the people, who handle the hundreds of thousands of cases across the nation, making the U.S. the #1 Jailer in the world.

Prosecutors, NOT police have grown the felony charges, counts and influence the lawmakers for harsher laws and longer sentences. They fight meaningful reform of draconian mandatory minimum sentencing, against the people. See Fordham Professor Pfaff’s empirical study.

Decades long, “standard operating procedure”, to convict at all cost, let cases languish in the state appeals courts for years, without addressing their own misconduct, without addressing new evidence or exculpatory evidence, then “dumping” these wrongful conviction cases, into the bloated federal courts. A politicized justice system, is no justice system at all.

Judge Kozinski has also called out the states’ prosecutorial misconduct, as well. See CA Baca vs Adams currently in the news.

Solution: Prosecutors who convict and imprison an innocent person, should be given the same punishment and sentence they demanded for the “accused”, and permanently be disbarred and their pensions taken away. Those who resign in advance of the findings, should also receive the same punishment.

AZ: MARICOPA COUNTY RETRIAL OF MILKE BARRED BY DOUBLE JEOPARDYBY ALEC – DECEMBER 14, 2014 “As was widely reported last week, an Arizona appellate court has dismissed with prejudice murder charges against Debra Jean Milke, who has spent most of the last twenty-three years on that state’s death row following her 1990 conviction in Maricopa County for the death of her four year old son.The Milke case is one we have been following here at the Open File for some time. It has already produced one opinion that we called “a model of prosecutorial accountability”, when the 9th Circuit threw out Milke’s conviction based on the Brady violations at her original trial and throughout her appellate process, and removed her from death row in 2013.It has now produced a second opinion that we can fairly describe as a model of accountability. In State v. Milke, the Arizona Court of Appeals last week held that the state’s behavior, which led to the 9th Circuit’s reversal, was “egregious misconduct that resulted in a flagrant denial of due process,” of such severity that “the most potent constitutional remedy is required,” dismissal with prejudice on the grounds that a retrial would expose Milke to double jeopardy.